its recently departed boss, dave calhoun, lost his job after struggling to deal effectively with a seriesty incidents, including two fatal accidents. despite that, he got a pay package worth more than $30 million as he was leaving. this graph marks the change in ceos, and as you can see, that can sometimes lead to a pretty big swing in a company's value, as investors express their confidence — or otherwise — in the individual leading a company. for those individuals running an s&p 500 company in the us, the median pay package has been rising steadily, hitting a record high of $16.3 million last year. shares often make up a big part of the typical award. the top earners were way above that. hock tan, who runs chip—maker broadcom, got $162 million. nikesh arora got $151 million at cybersecurity firm palo alto networks. and investment giant blackstone paid stephen schwarzman $120 million. since 2017, us companies have been required to disclose the gap between ceos and the rest, and it now shows the median ceo is getting paid 196 times as much as the median worker. disney's ceo, bob iger, is